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Take away the topping of landscapes, the greenery, the soil, maybe a lake or river, and you end up with rocks. Some Australian rocks are among the most ancient on Earth. They are Time’s oldest companions, infused with the stuff of memory. The memory of a common origin where everything on Earth comes from – from somewhere between a billion stars. There, cosmic explosions cooked hydrogen into helium, and then into heavier elements, like iron and the carbon in rocks and in our bones.Old rocks are our inanimate relatives.

EMELY's GAP

TREPHINA GORGE

EMELY's GAP-Aboriginal
rock artTo Aboriginal people every location in the
Macdonnell Ranges is a signpost from creation - the Dreamtime period; when
their spirit ancestors walked the world while creating it. An interesting
URL for the basics of Aboriginal culture:www.aboriginal.art.com/culture/dreamtime.html

ORMISTON GORGE - Northern Territory

GLEN HELEN

ELLERY BIG HOLE

SUNRISE - SUNSET

PURNULULU - Bungle Bungles

CHAMBERS PILLAR

Australian DARTER

12 APOSTLESThis is a high-energy coast, it's limestone demolished rapidly by the waves of the Southern Ocean. Land is lost by up to 15cm per year - that is 150 kilometres in the geologically short period of one million years (93 miles). There is a brief on the time scales at:http://www.visit12apostles.com.\au/natural-wonders/coastal-geology/

STANDLEY CHASM

BLUE LAKE

FATE

YELLOW CANNA with bird

TAWNY FROGMOUTH

MIST 2

CORROBOREE ROCK

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LOST CITY - Kings Canyon Plateau (Watarrka National Park)

AFTER THE FLOOD

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - Sunrise

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSEIn 1973 this unique urban sculpture was inscribed on the World Heritage Register